Tiger Mom: The movie?

You’re probably all maxed out on the hot air surrounding the hardcore parenting strategies laid out by Tiger Mom, a.k.a. Amy Chua, the Chinese American law professor who incited a global quarrel on how best to raise kids with her now best-selling memoir.

Amy Chua, photo by Associated Press

So we’ll forgo that summary.

Instead, here’s a tiny bit of news from the Hollywood Reporter: Two film producers, who did the 1989 movie hit, “The Joy Luck Club,” have expressed interest in turning Chua’s book into a film.

(The) book actually arrives at a time when the Chinese are doing some soul-searching about the merits of rote learning.

“The making of superb test-takers comes at a high cost, often killing much of, if not all, the joy of childhood,” wrote Chen Weihua, an editor at the state-run China Daily, around the time students in Shanghai had made headlines by besting the rest of the world in standardized math, science and reading exams.